What's your biggest challenge with building an audience on Twitter?
Darius Ogenyi
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Chris Rickard@chrisrickard
You need to be consistent and have a niche.
I've only been active on twitter for a couple of years, but I just talk about my personal experience building, running, and selling a software development agency.
It's not for everyone - but the people that are interested find it valuable, and it's a niche that everyone isn't talking about.
But twitter is a marathon, not a sprint.
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It's a saturated space and now virtually impossible to build a presence there unless you're a celebrity of sorts and open a new account there.
A lot of hardwork.
Actually nothing for now as I figured out this while building community of 32K followers 🙂
I think my biggest challenge is to start making tweets while having little followers and feeling stupid that no one will read them 😅
@agnieszka_rybij 😅 we were all there at some point. Start with one Tweet, and keep going.
@agnieszka_rybij It is absolutely difficult. Maybe impossible. But we have to post and see. We also should learn more about the actual algorithm. For example : you'll have a bad reach if you have more followings than followers.
@agnieszka_rybij I learnt this recently thanks to @NFT_God on X. There are a lot more indicators like this that makes it difficult for newcomers to be visible. I think I will make a summary of what a newcomer has to do right to have more visibility. I am actually at 40 following and 20 followers. It took me 2 months...
Gaining followers to widen my audience has always been a struggle. I do my best to publish tweets that are relatable and will attract my target market.
adapting to algorithm changes...
As on any other channel, be consistent and analyze what works and what doesn't work.
brainstorming engaging content
@kyle_place do have a swipe file for stacking engaging content you've come across?
I think here consistency is the key and understanding how algorithms are working. If you would constantly make a twits and translate your idea/values you want to share, you would definitely gain appropriate audience of like-minded people.
Some posts randomly do well, some don’t. Don’t know what works
You don’t know what make really high impressions
It is a lot of engaging
It not accepting the mobile number I'm trying to ad to my account so I can upgrade to Premium. 😆
It seems like everyone is on Twitter at different times, so it's hard to know when the best time to post is
@charliee1122 Who's your target audience? When do you think they'd generally be online?
Make the research and post accordingly.
Gaining the types of followers that would be interested in my product. I collect and share prices for routine auto services. So any car owner that pays for maintenance at an auto shop would be target audience.
@tariq_anees if you create content that educates, inspires and delights your audience, they'll come.
Also, engage with accounts that have your ideal audiences already.
still struggling now
Having the patience and perseverance to keep going with Twitter. It's not the easiest space to build an audience, and it's definitely not the fastest either, but it can really provide some great returns if you stick with it. It's just hard to stick with it 😂